Lamp-chimney cleaner



(No Model.')

A. WHITE.

LAMP CHIMNEY CLEANER.

Patented May 4, 1886.

U ITED STATES PATENTS OFFICE.

ALBERT VHITE, OF. LONVELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

LAMP-CHIMNEY CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,296, dated May 4,1886.

Application filed May 2, 1885. Serial No. 164,156. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT \VHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Chimney Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to lamp-chimney cleaners; and it consists in the combination hereinafter described, whereby a cleaner provided with said improvement will, when passed entirely through a lamp-chimney, said cleaner being covered by a cloth or other suitable rubbing material, bring said rubbing material in contact with every point of the inner surface of such chimney.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an isometric view showing the front and top of my improved cleaner; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the upper portion of the same; Fig. 3, a plan of the same; Fig. 4, a cross-section through the handle-rod between the ends of the spring; Fig. 5, a side elevation of the upper part of the handle-rod and the swiveled head in central vertical section; Fig. 6, a side elevation of the lower part of the handle-rod and slide; Fig. 7, a side elevation of my improved cleaner packed for transportation.

A is the handle, the same being a rod or wire, to which is pivoted at its upper end a head, 0, adapted to turn freely around the axis of said handle. The head 0 is provided with as many projecting studs 0 as there are springs D, hereinafter described. These studs 0 stand at an angle of about forty-five degrees with the handle, and each stud is passed through a hole in the end of one of the springs D. The springs D are retained on the studs 0 by heading or enlarging the ends of said studs above washers 0, surrounding said studs outside of said springs.

The slide B is a wire or rod having at its upper end an eye, I), which is so bent as to have as many nearly straight sides as there are springs D, and surrounds the rod A. The lower end of the slide is also looped at b'around the rod A, and then bent into a ring or thumbpiece, I), concentric with but not perpendicdown far enough, as shown in Fig. 7.

ular to the rod A. The lower ends of the springs D are bent around the sides of the eye I).

. The springs D are elastic strips of metal bent spirally, as SllOWl1 ll1 the drawings, and so curved as to draw the slide B upward on the rod A, the latter being provided with a collar or annular stop, a, above the lowerloop of the slide, to limit the upward motion of the slide.

The lower end of the handlc'rod A is bent outward at right angles, and then into a ring, a, smaller than the ring I)", and perpendicular to said rod A. The ring at the lower end of the slide is of such a size and at such an angle to the slide as to allow of its springing over one side of the ring a when the slide is drawn \Vhen the cleaner is in this position, the springs are almost straight and parallel to the rod A, and the cleaner then occupies a very small space, and can be readily packed for transportation.

When the cleaner is to be used, a cloth is laid over the springs, and the slide is drawn downward on the rod A by the thumb of the hand which holds the rod A, pulling on the ring Z) to compress the springs sufficiently to allow them to be introduced into the chimney, and the chimney is then cleaned by pushing the cleaner back and forth in the chimney from end to end thereof, without turning the chimney or cleaner with reference to each other, and owing to the shape of the springs the path of each spring will overlap the path of the spring on either side of it.

It is apparent that the nearer together the opposite ends of the springs are brought the more each spring will tend to surround the rod A, and the more the paths of the springs will overlap each other. It is for this reason that the head is made to turn freely on the rod A.

I am aware that lampehimney cleaners have heretofore been made of two wires, one of which slides freely in loops or curvatures formed in the other, and elastic metallic strips connecting the two contiguous ends of said wires, and straight when not under pressure,

but curved into arcs of circles when said con The combination of the handle-rod and the slide, arranged to slide upon said handle-rod, and provided with an eye to surround said handle-rod, a head adapted to turn freely on the end of said handle-rod about the axis thereof, and having studs projecting from said head at an angle with said handle-rod, elastic strips normally curved spirally from end to I 5 end, one end of each of said strips being looped around said eye, and the other end of each of said strips being provided with a hole to receive one of said studs, as and for the purpose specified.

ALBERT XVHITE.

\Vitnesses:

ALBERT M. Moonn, IRVING S. PORTER 

